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The Essential Question: How do I transform my school into an effective 21st Century Community?
The Outcomes: Participants will
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Understand how 21st Century Learning Community will differ from the 20th Century School
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Understand how such crucial 21st Century skills as critical and creative thinking, problem solving, collaboration, communication and the information, media and technology skills are for important for today’s students
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Develop ways of introducing my school community to the concepts, practices and values of the 21st Century Learning Community
The Learning Model: An inquiry mini-project.
Participants will investigate the differences between a 20th Century School and a 21st Century Learning Community as they focus on how to integrate the skills of critical and creative thinking, problem solving, collaboration and communication into already established best practices of effective teaching and learning. They will design a plan which includes the key understandings they have gained today and encourages them to apply these understandings in their school.
The Day’s Schedule:
9:00 The Essential Question for Today: How do I transform my school into
an effective 21st Century Learning Community?
10:15 Break
10:30 What are the most crucial skills for inclusion in a 21st Century
Learning Community?
12:15 Lunch
1:30 What do Critical and Creative Thinking Look and Sound Like in the
Collaborative Classroom?
2:45 What is my leadership role in transforming my school into a 21st
Century Learning Community?
3:15 On the Road
Books available to purchase onsite:
Payment options - PO or check (no credit cards, please)
- Designing Professional Develoment for Change
- 200+ Active Learning Strategies and Projects for Engaging Students' Multiple Intelligences
- A Guide to Graphic Organizers
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